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‘Them’ in an Abnormal World: Media Construction and Responsibility Attribution of Left-behind Children in Rural China
Publication · January 28, 2026
Do Voters Reject Gay Candidates? Partisanship, the Far-Right, and the Electoral Effect of Candidate Sexual Orientation in Latin America
Abstract
In recent years, LGBT rights and candidacies have expanded in Latin America. Some argue such progress may provoke a conservative reaction. Do voters punish gay candidates? To answer this, we conducted survey experiments in Argentina, Chi...
Publication · January 27, 2026
Building Tolerance for Backsliding by Trash-Talking Democracy: Theory and Evidence From Mexico
Abstract
Leaders who seek to build public toleration for democratic backsliding have a little-noticed strategy at their disposal: degrading their democracies in the eyes of their citizens. If voters can be induced to believe that their democracy ...
Publication · January 27, 2026
PAH Marks the Spot: Digging for Buried Clusters in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies
Publication · January 27, 2026
Educational Technology and Public Policies in Global Contexts
This line of inquiry examines how public policies around the world conceptualize the role of digital technologies in education, focusing on the discursive, pedagogical, and political assumptions embedded in policy frameworks. Through (critical) di...
Project · January 27, 2026
Marketization, Branding, and the Political Economy of EdTech
This line of inquiry investigates the growing marketization of education and the intensifying role of the EdTech industry in shaping how educational problems—and their “solutions”—are framed. Through a critical analysis of advertising, sponsored c...
Project · January 27, 2026
Challenging native-speakerism through a Global Englishes approach in a Hong Kong teacher education phonology course
Publication · January 27, 2026